The horror series’ most recent prequels don’t have a place in what Hawley wants to do with his still-mysterious TV show.
For the last few years now, all we’ve really known of Noah Hawley’s upcoming Alien show is exactly that, and that it’ll be more about the corporate side of the horror franchise. As a prequel, it’s got its work cut out for it, since it has to explain things, an issue the series has previously run into before with Prometheus and Alien: Covenant.
On a recent interview with KCRW’s The Business, Hawley was asked about if he’d be using any elements from those two specific films. Both prequels (which are closer to the franchise timeline of the show than the first Alien) revealed the Xenomorphs were created as a violent bioweapon by a race of people known as the Engineers. In referencing how the first Alien called the Xenomorph a “perfect life form,” Hawley indicated the Engineers would have no place in his show.
